On 31 Oct 2001, at 22:16, Andre Pang wrote: > Seagate U6 40GB: $211.20 > Promise FastTrak Pro 100 (hot-swap IDE + RAID0/1): $489.50 > Promise SuperSwap chassis: $225.50 > > I don't think the SuperSwap chassis is actually what you want for > just a removable drive bay -- it seems horrifying expensive (the > drive bay costing more than the hard disk? Plus you get two drive > bay things with the FastTrak Pro).
Waste of money unless you *need* the RAID1 system. > If you _don't_ want hot-swap, but still want IDE removable (where > you have to turn off the computer to swap hard disks), you can get > those drive bays at plenty of places, usually costing about $60 or > so for the IDE interface, and $30 for each 'drive bay'. Try Jaycar. Odd place I know, but std IDE caddies are $35, $40 with 3 fans (2 front, 1 rear), want it as hotswap? $85. Add the IDE drive of your choosing, right up to ATA100. > Another solution might be to look at the ORB removable drives. > Each disk holds 2.2GB, and the drive costs $350, with each disk > costing about $80. Great drives, much smaller than carrying a hard drive, and a lot less fragile. Gnuthad PGP Key Block available at: http://aussie.mine.nu/aussie/pgp_key.txt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
